TEXAS: Fine-Tuning Is for Cowards - Do RL

Supervised Finetuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL): The Hidden Solutions and Why They Matter for AI Reasoning. SFT + RL or RL only: AI Research is valid for 1 week All rights w/ authors: "SFT or RL? An Early Investigation into Training R1-Like Reasoning Large Vision-Language Models" Hardy Chen2, Haoqin Tu1, Fali Wang3, Hui Liu4, Xianfeng Tang4, Xinya Du2, Yuyin Zhou1, Cihang Xie1 from 1 University of California, Santa Cruz 2 University of Texas at Dallas 3 The Pennsylvania State University 4 Amazon Research